"Why are we making college students take English? They already had that in high school!"
@nathanielcgreen
History professor at Northern Virginia Community College. Author, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Kansas Press. https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/ Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.
"Why are we making college students take English? They already had that in high school!"
It's also maddening because it's so obviously his weakness that Dems could use against him in a thousand different ways but they simply refuse to do so
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - βWhen your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.β
Only written one book? Or only one article? You're still an expert, and Grammarly has no right to impersonate you using your work.
All academics, not just the rockstars at Ivies, should do this. Both because this crap affects all of us, and because I agree with Kevin that we should absolutely flood their inbox with experts telling them flat "no."
expertoptout@superhuman.com
Favorite line: "The people who criticize me for [my body] certainly couldn't stop me in the paint."
Watch this story about her. You can tell she is a thoughtful, kind person, who is grateful for her talents and is learning how to handle small-minded people who can't criticize her game so they attack her looks
Audi Crooks is a special human being who also happens to be a great basketball player
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEkZ...
Honestly would not be surprised if Trump polled donors about which female staffer he should cheat on Melania with
Just once, I'd like to think "this is something I could include in my history class" about something good.
No, I think that's the answer.
What, Kevin, you don't think our educational system should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, to build up our future...FOR OUR CHILDREN?
As someone who grew up in the golden age of video games, I find the concept NPC to be very useful in capturing how these sociopaths fundamentally do not see anyone other than themselves as real.
The ultimate betrayal of democracy is the belief that the rich and the powerful deserve all that they have.
I for one am grateful for those who have told me to shut the f*** up because most of the time they were right.
It absolutely is. And it should be punished accordingly.
For every one person with an academic job there are literally hundreds who are well-qualified who don't. You want to keep your academic job, do real academic work. You make shit up, even once, you can look for a different line of work
I think there's a way to make the precarity of academic work serve a public good, for once.
If you fabricate a single source, no matter how inconsequential to your work, you lose your job.
Now if he would just show 1/10 of that effort on defense
Nothing says "we are the superior race" like "Everyone's always had this except ME waaaaaahhhhh"
The thing to remember about bigots of all kind, who think they are better than people who are different from them, is that they are always the victims.
The Iowa women are a great basketball team. The UCLA women are an even better basketball team. But I had hoped it would be closer than the bloodbath I witnessed.
Maybe sweep more gently next time?
"We're very much and clearly winning. Like, really, really easily." Writing about a horrific war begun for no legitimate reason in which the U.S. probably bombed a school full of children.
Imagine the kind of morally bankrupt person who could write such a thing.
I see a link between this and these assholes' neo-eugenicism: people are either inherently "smart" or they aren't, and if you have to work at learning something it proves you aren't the fittest, so they never work at learning anything, so they are both supremely confident and impossibly foolish.
That's how such a thing was possible.
Sincerely,
A Historian from 2026
In Trump, they saw, and still see, their ideal: a powerful white man who acts with impunity, who makes rules but doesn't have to follow them, who can hurt people and destroy good things for no other reason than to prove he can.
They attacked schools, the medical industry, the very foundations of America's modern social and political order because, as far short as it fell from our ideals, it still validated the people they hated too much.
This allowed the most vile among us to weaponize democratic ideals like diversity and free speech, distorting them into a weapon they could brandish any time someone challenged their ideas. They were being unfairly "cancelled" because "woke" snowflakes couldn't handle their truth.